In pursuit of the exceptional: Research directions for machine learning in chemical and materials science

J Schrier, AJ Norquist, T Buonassisi… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Exceptional molecules and materials with one or more extraordinary properties are both
technologically valuable and fundamentally interesting, because they often involve new …

Performance assessment of universal machine learning interatomic potentials: Challenges and directions for materials' surfaces

B Focassio, LP M. Freitas… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are one of the main techniques in the
materials science toolbox, able to bridge ab initio accuracy with the computational efficiency …

Exploiting redundancy in large materials datasets for efficient machine learning with less data

K Li, D Persaud, K Choudhary, B DeCost… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Extensive efforts to gather materials data have largely overlooked potential data
redundancy. In this study, we present evidence of a significant degree of redundancy across …

Out-of-distribution generalization on graphs: A survey

H Li, X Wang, Z Zhang, W Zhu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2202.07987, 2022 - arxiv.org
Graph machine learning has been extensively studied in both academia and industry.
Although booming with a vast number of emerging methods and techniques, most of the …

Structural re-weighting improves graph domain adaptation

S Liu, T Li, Y Feng, N Tran, H Zhao… - … on Machine Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
In many real-world applications, graph-structured data used for training and testing have
differences in distribution, such as in high energy physics (HEP) where simulation data used …

Structure-based out-of-distribution (OOD) materials property prediction: a benchmark study

SS Omee, N Fu, R Dong, M Hu, J Hu - npj Computational Materials, 2024 - nature.com
In real-world materials research, machine learning (ML) models are usually expected to
predict and discover novel exceptional materials that deviate from the known materials. It is …

Uranium and lithium extraction from seawater: challenges and opportunities for a sustainable energy future

YJ Lim, K Goh, A Goto, Y Zhao, R Wang - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Amid the global call for decarbonization efforts, uranium and lithium are two important metal
resources critical for securing a sustainable energy future. Extraction of uranium and lithium …

Optimization and prediction of dye adsorption utilising cross-linked chitosan-activated charcoal: response surface methodology and machine learning

AK Shukla, J Alam, S Mallik, J Ruokolainen… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
Water pollution poses a significant environmental threat due to the discharge of organic
dyes from industrial processes. In this study, we investigated a novel adsorptive composite …

Probing out-of-distribution generalization in machine learning for materials

K Li, AN Rubungo, X Lei, D Persaud… - Communications …, 2025 - nature.com
Scientific machine learning (ML) aims to develop generalizable models, yet assessments of
generalizability often rely on heuristics. Here, we demonstrate in the materials science …

ET-AL: Entropy-targeted active learning for bias mitigation in materials data

H Zhang, WW Chen, JM Rondinelli… - Applied Physics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Growing materials data and data-driven informatics drastically promote the discovery and
design of materials. While there are significant advancements in data-driven models, the …